“Why should we pay taxes when we have no part in the honours, the commands, the statecraft, for which you contend against each other with such harmful results?” - Irate orator Hortensia, circa 50 BC. Headstrong H got her toga in a tangle when Roman leaders extracted a tax from females only...to fund a civil war.
Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 65.
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